[HN Gopher] Laptops adorned with creative stickers
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Laptops adorned with creative stickers
Author : z303
Score : 63 points
Date : 2025-11-02 11:58 UTC (9 days ago)
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| crtasm wrote:
| I love this. Will submit a few of mine soon.
| aaaja wrote:
| What a mess. Most of these are cringe and lack aesthetic sense.
| teejmya wrote:
| Good thing they're not yours, then
| navbaker wrote:
| Can you point us to a resource that would layout guidelines for
| placing laptop stickers in an aesthetically pleasing manner?
| wiseowise wrote:
| apple.com
| elzbardico wrote:
| I absolutely hate stickers too. You're not alone.
| bitbasher wrote:
| I get the feeling about 90% of those laptops belong to either
| cyber security folks or rust developers. Just a gut feeling.
| twic wrote:
| I always associated these battle-jacketed MacBooks with Ruby
| developers. But Ruby developers were the Rust developers of
| their day.
| ge96 wrote:
| It's funny awkward when you get fired and your laptop is covered
| in stickers
|
| I'll submit mine later today to this comment, I'm a poser lol eg.
| I don't daily drive Rust but I like the crab and the Gopher
|
| Kinkpad lol that's good
| layman51 wrote:
| That work-related aspect is what I was thinking about too. I'm
| not sure what it looks like in various workplaces, but I'm
| always a bit curious around the policies they might have around
| putting lots of them on employer-owned laptops. I think in
| tough times when maybe it's not easy to replace hardware, it
| can be annoying for an IT person to receive some where they
| have to peel them off and use Goo Gone on them.
| ge96 wrote:
| I think of it as optimism/a power move, I'm here for the long
| run.
| viraptor wrote:
| You can heat most of them and take off easily. If the IT
| transfers laptops to other people, they surely have a system
| for cleaning already.
| b_e_n_t_o_n wrote:
| This makes me wanna go buy some stickers...
| weinzierl wrote:
| There used to be a startup that sold ads on laptops. You got sent
| a sticker, had to put it on your laptop and take photos with the
| laptop and varying sets of people in them to get paid. Wonder
| what happened to them.
| xoxxala wrote:
| I really like the massive Beagle Bros Software sticker. Someone
| has good taste.
| jszymborski wrote:
| Likewise, that one really stood out!
| olirex99 wrote:
| Unfortunately, my company asked me to remove the stickers, as
| they don't reflect the company...
| mc32 wrote:
| You can put them on your car, bike or rucksack
| Etheryte wrote:
| The company I work at has a strict no stickers policy, that's
| why each and every one of my laptops is covered in them.
| dinkleberg wrote:
| Wow most of these are quite the contrast to what I used to see
| back in the day. At least in my circles it was just a collection
| of the technologies you've learned and enjoy. These are more like
| bumper stickers on the back of car. To each their own I suppose.
| shagie wrote:
| When I was going to conferences, my laptop stickers were a
| public display of "these are technologies that I use and you
| can strike up a conversation with me about them." To an extent,
| a resume that you can glance at from across the room.
|
| It's a bit of a statement for what you're trying to communicate
| with that lid - professional experience, political statements,
| personal "this is neat"...
|
| And part of this is a _for me_ the lid of the laptop is
| something that I 'd need to be able to be comfortable with
| displaying in front of a CxO without worry about if they may be
| offended or not (though perl might be offensive to some).
| viraptor wrote:
| > though perl might be offensive to some
|
| Now I'm tempted to make a set of: Perl, COBOL, Java Beans,
| Java EE, ActiveX, Silverlight, VB.Net, ActiveDirectory,
| Kerberos, ...
| SchemaLoad wrote:
| I've got stickers on my laptops. None of them are political,
| but I've got various indie fashion brands, music related,
| furry stickers, etc. If someone managed to be offended by
| them that's more their problem than mine. I can go work
| anywhere and have enough savings that it would be no
| inconvenience to me. I wouldn't want to work with someone who
| couldn't handle some trivial self expression on the back of a
| laptop.
|
| So far no one has ever been offended by this though. HN is
| far more sensitive than the average CTO.
| cringemaester wrote:
| This is the equivalent of lowered Honda civics with ultra
| cambered wheels, ground lighting, and farty mufflers. Cringe in
| 2005. Cringe today.
| SiempreViernes wrote:
| The above is a self-referencing comment.
| wiseowise wrote:
| Civics are more based, though.
| noisem4ker wrote:
| At least those cars exhibited some kind of aesthetic merit,
| albeit of opinable taste. Most of these pileups of stickers are
| just an incoherent mishmash of corporate trademarks and
| political orientation signals. They only share the attention
| grabbing attitude.
|
| I expected better from the title.
| joshdavham wrote:
| This was super fun to browse!
|
| I am a bit curious about the amount of politically progressive
| stickers however. Like, is sticker-ing your laptop just more of a
| 'progressive' thing to do? Do political conservatives not sticker
| their laptops in the same way that they generally do with their
| bumper stickers?
| SchemaLoad wrote:
| I think there's just a link between sticking stickers on things
| and being somewhat expressive, artistic, willing to stand out.
| While leaving the laptop blank is more likely someone more dry,
| reserved, etc. There's also a link between stickers and
| graffiti culture which I wouldn't describe as progressive but
| more just unconventional/rebellious.
| viraptor wrote:
| I've never seen a conservative sticker on a laptop before. Then
| again, stickers, tags, etc. are more of an anti establishment
| thing. Those things don't mesh well with conservative views.
| Animats wrote:
| There are laptops with a display on the outside to display
| stickers.[1]
|
| [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrINRHeNDQA
| sien wrote:
| It's interesting that these are labelled 'creative'. They all
| look the same. They all reflect similar taste. Quite a bit of
| politics, but is there a single right wing sticker? I couldn't
| find one.
|
| I was at SIGGRAPH many years ago in a line behind some artists.
| They were talking about how all the engineers dressed the same.
| This is true. But was also true was that you easily tell the
| artists as well, they all dressed carefully and differently,
| within the bounds of their style and were just as easily
| distinguished.
| nntwozz wrote:
| Ha, what a throwback!
|
| I remember this one with the Intel SSD sticker:
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| https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-320-ssd-300-gb/imag...
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| https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/IMG_6571.JPEG
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| "The Intel SSD 320 is the much anticipated follow-up to the Intel
| X25-M, easily the most popular consumer SSD to date."
|
| https://www.storagereview.com/review/intel-ssd-320-review-30...
|
| Time flies, such a nice upgrade back in the day; now we take
| these things for granted.
|
| [EDIT]
|
| I just saw the fon.com sticker too... nostalgia hits hard.
|
| I used that on a vacation in Madrid back when Starbucks was
| filled with people on their laptops, mostly white MacBooks.
| braden-lk wrote:
| These comments are rough. Some weird hostility to self-expression
| in here.
|
| "Back in my day, laptops were about TECHNOLOGY! Where's the
| conservative stickers!?" Ok, put some "conservative stickers" on
| your laptop and submit a pic to the site-- no one's stopping you.
|
| I was born in early 90s; all laptops in my memory have weird,
| silly stickers on them.
| klez wrote:
| Looks like many people here in the comments don't hang out at
| hacking events that are not purely tech-focused. In European
| hacker camps these kinds of stickers are the norm, especially the
| political ones that, because of the very nature of those camps,
| lean heavily progressive if not anti-capitalist/anarchist.
| Findecanor wrote:
| The only one I liked is the HAL sticker.
|
| Hmm... Does the current crop of Apple laptops have a glowing
| Apple logo? ... and is there a HAL sticker that has a red lens in
| the middle that would glow red if I put it over the Apple logo?
| d_silin wrote:
| I think it is a wonderful pop-art exhibit!
| reaperducer wrote:
| Where do people buy laptop stickers these days? My wife got a new
| computer a few months and couldn't find anything cute and
| tasteful. Everything was brands and anger. The places she used to
| use are gone, and Amazon proved useless.
| viraptor wrote:
| Etsy has some, but you can also print your own for not much.
| ninetyninenine wrote:
| Like covering a Lamborghini with cheap bumper stickers.
| viraptor wrote:
| It's like people want to show what they care about rather than
| how much they spent on the hardware... There may be a reason.
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